Unity in Hardy's novels : 'repetitive symmetries' / Peter J. Casagrande
1982, 1st edition. London : Macmillan. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #409152
ISBN: 0333284852
Physical description; 249 pp.; 23 cm. Contents; Hardy's deterioristic mode of regard -- Thinking o' perfection: the novels and poems to 1875 -- Nothing backward climbs: the futility of return in The return of the native, The woodlanders and The well-beloved -- Twice-over cannot be: the futility of restoration in The mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the obscure -- Conclusion: one man's literary purpose. Subjects; Hardy, Thomas 1840-1928 Criticism and interpretation. Technique. Return in literature. Repetition (Rhetoric). Regeneration in literature. Fiction in English Hardy, Thomas 1840-1928 Critical studies.
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